Small business owners are staring down the looming threat of intrusive government involvement and unfair competitive practices in their day-to-day operations. This November, voters will decide whether local neighborhood employers get room to grow or get buried under the socialist playbook now being repackaged as affordability.

The scenario is currently unfolding in New York City, where socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pitched taxpayer-subsidized, city-run grocery stores as an affordability solution, a promise small business owners are seeing right through.

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